Lot 295
Bahamani Sultan Ghiyath al din Tahmatan Shah Copper Falus
Auction # 14 Lucknow (Online)
- Estimated Price (INR)
- 2500 - 3000
- Price Realised -
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Auction Completed!
- Catalog Reference #
- G&G # BH56
- Metal Composition
- Copper
- Lot Grade/Condition
- fine+
- Diameter
- 16.77 mm
- Weight
- 5.29 gms
- Denomination
- Falus
- Calendar/Year
- AH 799, 1397 AD
Bahamani Sultanates, Ghiyath al din Tahmatan Shah (AH 799, 1397 AD), Copper Falus, 5.29 gms, 16.77 mm, Obv. Arabic legend Tahamatan Shah bin Muhammad Shah, Rev. Arabic legend al-mu ayyad bi-nasr allah abu al-muzaffar, Tahmatan Shah is the rarest of all the Bahmani rulers. He was the young son of Muhammad II and he never had a chance against the factionalism that was forming in the kingdom between the Deccani faction and the Foreign faction. His reign was brief. He was blinded and imprisoned, and succeeded by his step-brother, Daud, who suffered the same fate, G&G # BH56, fine+, very rare.